Re: Questions...

[Carsten Wartmann <nospam@thanx>]

Denis Barbier writes:
 > On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Carsten Wartmann wrote:
 > 
 > [...]
 > > I want to have a news and quicklinks area on my site, so I thought it
 > > would be the easiest to make directories "news" and "quicks" which
 > > contain simple files like i.e. NewVersion1.72.wml:
 > > 
 > > <date>12.12.1999</date>
 > > <link>www.blender.nl</link>
 > > <text>Blender Version 1.72</text>
 > > 
 > > and let wml render them into a nice table (the tags are definied in my 
 > > common.wml).
[···]
 > > This works some kind, but naturally the tags didnīt get expanded,
 > > because perl is pass 3... I tried to call wml with the option -p
 > > 1-3,1-9 but this didnīt work, it does the passes this way:
 > > 1,1,2,2,3,3,... (why?)
 > 
 > Passes are sorted. You have to put an exclamation mark after pass
 > specification to let this unsorted. As i did not know whether this is a
 > good idea, i did not document this feature. It is documented in
 > wml-SNAP.

Aha! Iīll try (carefuly ;-)

 > > Maybe Iīm totally wrong with my idea and someone could point me into
 > > the right direction.
 > 
 > There are many solutions. The simplest is
 > 
 > #include "common.tmpl"
 > #include "news/*.inc"

Obvious idea... Thanks.

 > In lines above, i replaced .wml suffix because this suffix should be
 > reserved for input file only.

Yes, this comes to my mind this night... It also makes it easier to
recursively wmk over a site.

Carsten.
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